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Warehousing African Immigrants in Israel

published:21 Jul 2014

Warehousing African Immigrants in I

Warehousing African Immigrants in Israel

The above video, Playing A Role, was shot in the Nahal Raviv facility, a new prison located three miles from the Egyptian border. The site, which has also become known as "Tent City," was built to acc...

BBC News Day two of African migrants protest in Tel Aviv, Israel

published:06 Jan 2014

BBC News Day two of African migra

BBC News Day two of African migrants protest in Tel Aviv, Israel

Crowds of African immigrants are demonstrating for a second day in Tel Aviv.
The protesters, mostly Eritreans and Sudanese, marched on Sunday to protest against their treatment by the Israeli governm...

VOA's Jerusalem-based correspondent, Scott Bobb, talks with On Assignment's Philip Alexiou about the lives of African asylum seekers in Israel.
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Illegal immigration from Africa to Israel (often also referred to as Infiltration from Africa to Israel by the Israeli media and by Israeli government organisations) is the name of a phenomenon that began in the second half of the 2000s in which a large number of Illegal immigrants from Africa entered Israel illegally, mainly through the fenced border between Israel and Egypt. According to the data of the Israeli Interior Ministry, the number of these illegal immigrants amounted to 26,635 people to July 2010., and over 55,000 in January 2012.

Israel forced 7,000 African migrants to leave

Israel forced 7,000 African migrants to leave
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Warehousing African Immigrants in Israel

The above video, Playing A Role, was shot in the Nahal Raviv facility, a new prison located three miles from the Egyptian border. The site, which has also become known as "Tent City," was built to accommodate 4,000 African migrants. Commissioned by Jerusalem's "Under the Mountain" Festival of New Public Art, Playing a Role was broadcast on Israel's Channel 10 news program "London and Kirshenbaum" in August 2012. It was the first media report showing footage of "Tent City."

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Israel: African migrants clash with police.

More than 1000 illegal African immigrants in Israel staged a sit-in Saturday near the southern border with Egypt after a protest march against conditions in...

BBC News Day two of African migrants protest in Tel Aviv, Israel

Crowds of African immigrants are demonstrating for a second day in Tel Aviv.
The protesters, mostly Eritreans and Sudanese, marched on Sunday to protest against their treatment by the Israeli government.
Israel says they have arrived illegally and should return home.

VOA's Jerusalem-based correspondent, Scott Bobb, talks with On Assignment's Philip Alexiou about the lives of African asylum seekers in Israel.
Originally published at - http://www.voanews.com/media/video/2454468.html

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Thousands of African migrants protest Israel detention policy

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HRW Accuses Israel of Forcing African Migrants to Leave.

Human Rights Watch accused Israel on Tuesday of coercing thousands of Sudanese and Eritrean migrants to leave since last year in a report that documented alleged cases of abuse against some of those who returned home.
The rights group said Israel had denied proper asylum-seeking procedures to many of the more than 40,000 migrants still in the country, in violation of United Nations guidelines.
Israel said all of its actions were legal.
The report also criticized Israel's policy of detaining indefinitely thousands of African migrants, pending resolution of their cases, in a desert facility. Most of them entered illegally through a once porous border with Egypt after 2011.
The migrants' plight has raised strong emotions in Israel, founded as a homeland for Jews after centuries of persecution.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dubbed the migrants “infiltrators” and some Israeli politicians have called them a threat to the country's Jewish fabric. But Israeli rights groups have urged a more sympathetic approach to asylum requests.
To coax the detainees and other migrants to leave, Israel offers to pay their airfare and offers other stipends. It says those who accept the funds and repatriation do so freely.
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) report said about 6,750 Sudanese and Eritreans left Israel from January 2013 through July 1 this year.
Israeli figures from August show the number has risen since to about 8,000, said Gerry Simpson, senior HRW researcher and author of the report. He accused Israel of “mass refoulement” -- forcing people entitled to refugee protection under international law to risk their lives through repatriation.
Simpson said HRW saw Israel's policy as amounting to “coercive measures” and part of a policy of “unlawful forced return, torture and other serious harm, affecting thousands of Eritreans and Sudanese”.
Israel's Interior Ministry, in response to the report, said Israel “is acting in accordance with the law in a measured way to confront the phenomenon of illegal infiltrators”.
The policy had “shown results” in that the number of migrants agreeing to leave Israel had tripled in the past year, the ministry's statement said.
HRW's report documented six cases in which Sudanese men who returned home from Israel were jailed, interrogated or tortured. One said he had spent weeks in solitary confinement, and another gave an account of having been subjected to electric shocks, beatings and scalding.
Another Sudanese man was charged with treason for having traveled to Israel, a country regarded by Sudan as an enemy.
Israel also was criticized in the report for granting refugee status to just 0.1 percent of Eritrean asylum seekers, compared to 83 percent of Eritreans accorded that status worldwide.

Israel African Migrants

African migrants in Israel protesting against a government detention law announce plans to extend their strike and protests across Tel Aviv. VOA's Vincent Makori reports and later talks via Skype to VOA's Jerusalem correspondent Scott Bobb about the ongoing protests by the African migrants.

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